"Ruby, My Dear" 08.12.24 | "Ruby, My Year" Day 365 | The Last Day, Take 1 

This is the first of 2 renditions & posts for the 365th and final day of the "Ruby, My Year" project (see channel description below). Nearly 400 recordings of the song. Just under 20 total hours of music and video. One full year, one post (at least!) for every day. The project is now officially, and successfully, complete.
Link to 2nd "Day 365" take/recording: • "Ruby, My Dear" 08.12....
The imagery for this video is a photo of a spiral staircase.
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CHANNEL/PLAYLIST DESCRIPTION: I'm Edward "Ted" Spies and I've been playing music, primarily on keyboard-based instruments, for most of my life. I started a project called "Ruby, My Year" on August 13, 2023. For each day of the next year, I recorded & posted a version of Thelonious Monk's song "Ruby, My Dear".
I originally learned a version of the composition about 25 years ago when I was first introduced to Monk's music, but had forgotten the tune in the intervening years prior to beginning this project. My hope is that the "Ruby, My Year" project offers an interesting view of how a piece of music evolves over the course of time as a performer learns, internalizes, and ultimately personalizes a composition.
Unless otherwise noted, all sounds produced & recorded by me in my little home studio and all visuals generated by DALL-E.